Links for 07-28-2012

• Sources of the Budget Deficit - Paul Krugman
• Recession Less Bad Thanks to Government - WSJ
• Long-Term Unemployment: Anatomy of the Scourge - Brookings
• Lump Sum or Annuity? - Baseline Scenario
• Lowering the IOER is Not So Scary - David Beckworth
• 'Big Government' Isn't So Big. It's Also Shrinking. - NYTimes.com
• Speaking Of Getting Everything Wrong - Paul Krugman
• Frank Popper on Academia - Richard Green
• Woodward Avenue - Dan Little
• Milton Friedman's thermostat? - Nick Rowe
• The Euro and the Mark - Miles Kimball
• Cutting-edge technology and health care costs - MIT News
• Taiwan's Progress on Health Care - Uwe E. Reinhardt
• Cable's terrible excuse - Chris Dillow
• The Hobbled Recovery - Paul Krugman
• Brooks Complains About the Monomaniacs - Dean Baker
• Rejoinder to "Oil Price Spike Exacerbated by Speculation?" - Econbrowser
• MMT/ELR: A Mix of Old and Unsubstantiated New Ideas - Thomas Palley